Students reacted strongly to a newly redesigned web page for campus dining hours and menus as they returned from spring break.

The new page was introduced week one of spring quarter to better align the UCLA Dining website with other campus web pages, according to a written statement from UCLA Housing. The page was also designed to be compatible with a new food management system and improve user experience, according to the statement.

Kai Wang, a second-year computer science and engineering student, said she waited in line for food trucks after her original choice – Café 1919 – was incorrectly labeled as open on the web page. Wang said she was surprised by the update to the page, adding that she thought the new layout was less user-accessible because it requires clicking through multiple pages and scrolling past large banners to access the menus.

The previous page featured a condensed list of all dining hall hours for a given day, with direct links to specific menus, the names and hours of food trucks scheduled to be on the Hill and a calendar feature to view hours for the upcoming week in advance.

Cassidy Irwin, a first-year psychology student, said she also found the new page confusing and struggled to figure out how to navigate it after spring break. Using the page is unnecessarily tedious and time-consuming, added Luis Wang, a first-year mechanical engineering student.

Joey Green, a first-year mathematics/economics student, said his severe food allergy limits which dining halls he can eat at – but the new web page makes finding information in advance less efficient.

“I know it’s a privilege to have that website,” Green said. “But now you have to go in blindly to the different dining halls, which is really hard.”

Green spent 45 minutes trying to figure out which dining hall had a menu that worked for him early in the week, including accidentally going to one that had no options he could eat, he said.

Kevin Li, a second-year mathematics/economics student, said he found it particularly inconvenient that the main food truck page listed the times food trucks would be present but made it difficult to find the actual names of the trucks themselves.

“I love it when the school is like, ‘Here’s this thing that’s working – let’s make it worse,’” Li said. “It’s making it harder to know what food is when, and obviously, my life revolves around food.”

Alongside technical frustration, Bruins also said the new page made it difficult to figure out which dining halls could accommodate specialized diets on a given day.

Luis Wang said he found accessing information about calorie counts and dietary goals to be inconvenient on the new website. He also said he believed the nutrition information on the new page was inaccurate after seeing pancakes at the De Neve residential restaurant labeled as 8,600 calories.

The daily recommended calorie intake for moderately active men aged 21-25 is 2,800 and 2,200 for moderately active women aged 21-25, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

“It feels like I’m at a cheap replica,” Luis Wang said. “I feel like I am simply another being within someone else’s skin with this new dining menu.”

Kai Wang added that the incorrectly labeled items – from hours to calorie counts – were a source of frustration for her.

UCLA Housing said in its statement that it is monitoring student input on platforms such as Dine and Dish and Reddit to address issues with the new page as soon as possible.

“We recognize that this transition hasn’t been seamless for everyone,” UCLA Housing said in the statement. “Your feedback is important to us, and we’re committed to making the necessary improvements.”